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2009 - click on pics to enlarge

March 15, 2009. The winter of 2009 was cold and snowy and the spring thaws are starting. The Cannonball was rising steadily. We could hear the river roaring from the yard. The river is 1 mile south of the house. Lots of snow left to melt yet.....


2009 03-15 Snowman of the year, just before the thaw started	03-18-09 looking west		Dam on section 23 filling up 03-18-09	03-19-09 looking east

03-19-09 looking west from bridge	03-19-09 looking east from bridge		03-19-09	03-19-09

03-20-09	03-20-09 cleaning out a culvert by 23		03-20-09 culvert running full	03-20-09 on section south of house looking east

03-20-09 handsome guy by the old bridge washed out in 1950. Our farm north in the background	03-20-09 on Grammas		03-20-09 looking across Cannonball to southwest	03-20-09 looking across Cannonball to southwest

03-20-09 Section 27 looking east	03-20-09 from bridge looking west		03-20-09 Somebody's fence is starting to go down the river	Note the bird nests under the bridge 03-20-09
The Cannonball river crested sometime over the night on March 20-21 (first day of spring coincidentally) Kerry and I watched it until dark but did not get to see it at the highest mark.

I tried to match these two photos together to show river backing up into Oscars corn field March 21, 2009			Normal size of Cannonball, this photo taken the fall of 2007 looking NW	Looking west towards Oscars.

These photos all taken March 21 2009. Ice jam starts just before where old bridge was ripped out in flood of 1950	Looking west towards Oscars.		Looking north towards our farm.	Looking northwest up the Cannonball.

Kerry, farm in background	There were 2 beavers swimming

Two beavers just south of bridge looking east towards Keaton's farm			Ice jam on Grammas straight down section line

	Cannonball backed up into Keaton's school quarter		Cannonball backed up into Keaton's school quarter	Dam filled up on North section 23

I merged a bunch of photos so you can see from the northwest all the way around the corner and ice jam to the bridge

water is a little higher in afternoon	old bridge location		looking towards farm from the east	Checking culverts/one is bent
The Cannonball river jam at the old bridge released the night of March 21-22 and then jammed up at the current bridge. It appeared that the icebergs were hitting & scraping the bottom of the bridge. All the bird nests got scraped off the walls of the pillar supports, and where the beavers were hanging out along the banks yesterday, there are now huge icebergs laying around. We did not get to see the highest water as once again, it happened at night.

Note the bird nests under the bridge 03-20-09	bird nests gone 03-22-09 (so is the fence!)		east of bridge	icebergs in pasture

Same pic for both, just made some notes to mark the waterline on second one			old bridge area cleared out	river to northwest cleared out

looking west from bridge 03 22 09	you can see how high the water got the night of March 22.		Ice bergs laying along the banks	looking straight north along the old road and bridge

Oscar's draining after the ice jam clears out	ice bergs sitting on the banks		our farm with flooded fields	water over the road by section 23 north east side

dirt clumps pushed up by ice	river fence out		flattened river fence on Grammas	grounded ice bergs

Grammas	Grammas		Grammas	Big ice berg

Kerry and ice bergs	Tall ice berg		On grammas	ice bergs on Grammas
Blizzard hit on March 24th, 2009 got around 12 inches we think


March 24, 2009 Blizzard Garage door, snow packed in	All white again	Coffee break	Nice ear flapper hat, Does anyone from North Dakota not own one???	March 24, 2009 front of house looking east

March 24, 2009	March 24, 2009		March 24, 2009	March 24, 2009 Clearing a path

We got out March 25, 2009	March 25, 2009 Slope Electric		March 25, 2009 Farmers Union	March 25, 2009 Elevator Row

March 25, 2009 Main St. New England	March 25, 2009 Main Street New England		March 25, 2009 Reenie's house	March 25, 2009 Regi's house

March 25, 2009 Tip Top Auto	March 25, 2009 Congregational		March 25, 2009 Congregational	March 25, 2009

March 25, 2009 School	March 25, 2009 School		March 25, 2009 towards Selinger's	March 25, 2009

March 25, 2009 Grammas	March 25, 2009 Dickinson Villard		March 25, 2009 looking east from highway 22 on Havelock road	March 25, 2009 Nesjas trees looking east

March 25, 2009 Cannonball looking west	March 25, 2009 Cannonball looking east		March 25, 2009 Driveway
Another storm hit March 30, 2009 got alot more, maybe 14 to 17 inches??

March 30, 2009	March 30, 2009		March 30, 2009	March 30, 2009

April 1, 2009 digging out again	April 1, 2009 road to mailbox		April 1, 2009 headed west to Nesja's trees	April 1, 2009 going through Nesja's trees

April 1, 2009 Black butte from highway 22	April 1, 2009 elevator road		April 1, 2009 Devon's farm	April 1, 2009 Dickinson
Melting out again!!!! On April 14 the river came up enough to float the icebergs once more!! The water washed over the roads in many places

Sec 26 east of Keaton's, west of 23, south of Connie's qtr	NE Sec 23 washed out

River April 13, some icebergs back floating looking west	Cannonball River April 13, looking east from bridge		Kerry Apr 14, 2009	Looking south towards river April 14 2009

East side of bridge Apr 14, 2009	West of bridge Apr 14, 2009		South west of bridge Apr 14, 2009	Looking toward Keaton's from mailbox

Grammas Apr 14, 2009	Stock dam on SE 1/4 sec 23 full!!		Hay in water	Antelope herd Apr 16, 2009

River going down Apr 17, 2009 looking west from bridge	River going down Apr 17, 2009 looking west from bridge		Deer lounging south of bridge Apr 17, 2009	Tractor blew a piston photos shows going in for repairs Apr 18, 2009

Deer ate all the branches/leaves 8 ft up on the pines, April 19, 2009				Rabbits girdled many deciduous trees

Chokecherries girdled	Cedar & apple trees girdled We still have lots of snow in the shelterbelts April 19, 2009